9 track tapes and block sizes

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/5/20 2:06 PM, Warner Losh wrote:

> The other way to handle it, should we not be able to steal bits which
> should be plan A, is to have a metadata type that says 'append this to
> the prior record' which would remove the limit entirely.

There's a good idea!  Instead of putting headers on an all-tape record,
just archive the raw data and call it that.

Even though I can handle a long block this way (assuming my SDHC card
can keep up, I've never run across this.   My controller does
double-buffering while reading.

--Chuck